Saturday, February 25, 2017

This Just In....

Minnesota snow storms are still possible in late February.


Our village isn't on this list but you can draw a straight geographical line between Stockholm (WI) and Goodhue and the tallies on this chart agree with what my tall over boots measured mid-day and it kept blowing/snowing all day.


There's always an "edge" to a storm track but this one was dramatic; the delineation between the have a lots and the have not's was narrow and sharp.




Don't know where we'd have been without the (former) Redding, California Public Utility Plow Truck.


Last Sunday I put ~50 very carefree miles on the bike ......tomorrow I'll be comfortably reading about 1870's steamboats on the Upper Mississippi

10 comments:

  1. That's terrible... (translation: Better you than me!)

    Enjoy the steamboat books.

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    1. Richard, we got through it! I did a quick job that evening while it was still snowing and blowing, got the bulk of it then but it was a horrible job. Counting on the 15 degrees predicted on Saturday morning, our soft base was then solid enough. I think we won, at least so far.

      I'm really enjoying the book, it's well done, so much of it here on the upper river. Surprised I hadn't been familiar with it.


      http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47262

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    1. Dom, it will be nicer when there's just a few struggling piles left. We have to keep reminding ourselves that we honestly have 10 more potential weeks of this.

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  3. Sorry that you got it, but very happy it didn't come this far north, hate pushing snow that's on top of soft dirt and mud
    rmo

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    1. rmo, I think that we've been on the right side of this storm's rough NE vector more than once already this season. It was probably our turn.

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  4. Snow does look better than mud to me... just saying.

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    1. Sonja, as far as it goes, you are correct. Now if we could get the snow not to make MORE mud. I think we're going to be OK.

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  5. Wow, good thing you got that ride in when the sun was shining. The snow always looks so pretty when it is fresh though.

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    1. Brandy, pretty it certainly is and I'll admit it. Green will return soon enough and the way things are going, it will be here before I'm quite ready for it.

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